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PACE 2020 Discovery Drilling 2012 : Year 7 Drilling Partnership no. DPY7-27 - Endeavour Copper Gold Pty Ltd, Tarcoola Project, Harris Greenstone Domain magmatic nickel - prospective ultramafic targets. Drilling project final report.
The principal mineral exploration target for Endeavour Copper Gold Pty Ltd ('Endeavour') on the three subject Tarcoola Project exploration licences is nickel sulphide mineralisation hosted by Archaean ultramafic intrusive rocks within the Harris...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Lake Harris. First annual report for the period 31/5/2010 to 30/5/2011.
An area extending for ~10 to ~60 km westwards from Kingoonya, comprising three separate sub-blocks, is being explored for buried Archaean greenstone belt - hosted primary metallic mineralisation. Work undertaken during the first year of tenure...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Lake Everard. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 8/11/1999 to 24/8/2010.
During licence Year 6, on renewed EL 2697, AngloGold drilled a total of 177 vertical RAB holes (LER2508 – LER2679) for 9975 m plus 20 inclined RC holes (LRC360 – LRC379) for 2964 m. The drilling of 97 RAB holes at the Smith prospect revealed a 300 m x...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : the Tarcoola and Theseus Projects. Joint annual reports for the period 31/5/2010 to 31/12/2014.
A large part of the Harris Greenstone Domain basement tectonostratigraphic block, extending from 10 km to 130 km west of Kingoonya, is being explored for possible buried economic gold, nickel and other base metal mineralisation which may be associated...-
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Glenloth (part of the Tarcoola Joint Venture Project). First partial surrender report, for the period 11/7/2003 to 2/11/2009.
When exploring for nickel sulphide mineralisation within buried ultramafic rocks of the Archaean Lake Harris Greenstone Belt, over TEMPEST aerial EM anomalies lying ~16 km north-west of Yerda Outstation, Mithril Resources carried out a ground EM...-
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Deception Hill. First partial surrender report, for the period 31/5/2010 to 30/5/2014.
245 square km or ~56.2% of the original area of EL 4496, in a single sub-block comprising its western part, has been relinquished because it lies within the Yellabinna Regional Reserve, a sensitive environmental conservation park located in sandy...-
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Malbooma. First partial surrender report, for the period 14/5/2012 to 13/5/2014.
The 23 square km southern sub-block portion of an area centred 30 km west of Tarcoola has been relinquished because it lies within the Yellabinna Regional Reserve, a sensitive environmental conservation park located in sandy desert wilderness country...-
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Data release - as updated : Ferguson. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 28/2/2006 to 14/11/2016.
An area centred ~40 km west of Kingoonya has continued to be explored for possible economic buried epithermal/hydrothermal gold and base metals by the Deep Well/Abbey Feale Mining group. Due to financial constraints, the only work undertaken during...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : progress report - Kingoonya geochemical survey, 1996.
Report describes a reconnaissance soil calcrete geochemical sampling survey performed in August and December 1996, when 266 samples were collected along roads and tracks in the Kingoonya district and assayed for selected trace elements. Resultant...-
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RB 2003/00010 Regolith characterisation and geochemistry as an aid to mineral exploration in the Harris Greenstone Belt, central Gawler Craton, South Australia.
Komatiitic greenstones were first recognised in South Australia from drillcore at Lake Harris on the Gawler Craton by Mines and Energy SA personnel in 1991. Subsequent petrography and detailed aeromagnetic data interpretation led to targeted drilling...-
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Published: 01 May 2004
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RB 2008/00007 Regolith Benchmark Atlas, Gawler Craton, South Australia.
Transported regolith and deeply weathered basement together conceal large tracts of prospective crystalline basement (cratonic and geosynclinal rocks) in South Australia, and such cover forms a major exploration impediment for much of the Gawler...-
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Published: 01 Jun 2008
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Lake Harris. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/9/1996 to 12/9/2000.
The area lying immediately south of lakes Gairdner and Harris was considered prospective for concealed Olympic Dam style Cu-Au mineralisation hosted in Archaean to Mesoproterozoic basement rocks of the Gawler Craton. Acquisition of a regional 1 km x...-
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Talia Hill. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/9/2001 to 25/6/2009.
During the late 1990s, company exploratory drilling of the Harris Greenstone Belt in the central Gawler Craton, south of Tarcoola, revealed a package of previously unknown, shallowly buried komatiite lava beds with a strike length in excess of 350 km...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : the Tarcoola and Theseus Projects. Joint annual reports for the period 1/1/2015 to 31/12/2018.
During the fourth year of project licences' joint reporting, for the Theseus Project, Endeavour undertook further RC and diamond core drilling at the Minos prospect on EL 5280, and did detailed auger calcrete geochemical sampling over the Lake...-
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Published: 21 Feb 2019
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Carnding. Data release made in lieu of submitting a second partial relinquishment report at licence expiry/renewal : progress reports and annual reports for the period 29/9/1994 to 16/1/2005.
Renewed brownfields gold exploration in an area situated 20-40 km north and west of the Tarcoola Goldfield, previously held in part by the licensee as EL 1848, was prompted by the May 1995 success of the Samantha/Resolute/Dominion corporate joint...-
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Published: 28 Jul 2005
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Deception Hill. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 26/10/2004 to 9/10/2013.
The iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) mineralisation potential of an area centred ~20 km south of Tarcoola, which appeared to contain untested but interesting gravity and soil geochemical anomalies, was investigated by Minotaur to try to...-
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Published: 28 Oct 2013
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Tarcoola - Mount Finke area. Progress reports and annual reports plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 1/6/1992 to 10/8/2002.
Buried Archaean Mulgathing Complex rocks, comprising metamafics, ultramafics, granites, mafic gneisses and possible greenstones, were the target host for gold, copper and nickel mineralisation in the Mount Finke - Malbooma area, south-west from...-
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Published: 26 Mar 2003
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Big Tank Outstation. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 28/4/2004 to 27/4/2008.
Existing data reviewed only - no field activities. A mooted airborne EM survey to try to map possible uraniferous Tertiary palaeochannels was not performed because a joint venture partner could not be found to share the cost of this work.-
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Published: 10 Jan 2008
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Data release - as updated : Lake Harris. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 15/2/2012 to 14/2/2019.
An area centred ~90 km south-east of Tarcoola and adjacent to the western shore of Lake Gairdner is being explored for possible economic buried Carrapateena or Prominent Hill style IOCG and polymetallic skarn style mineralisation which may be...-
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Published: 20 Mar 2019
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Ferguson [Siding]. Data release made at partial relinquishment of a subsequent licence : annual reports for the period 13/6/1995 to 12/12/2000.
An area located 35 km south-east of Tarcoola was targeted for gold because of interpreted aeromagnetic data, which suggested the presence of discrete Archaean iron formations and mafic rocks within the more widely distributed Kenella Gneiss, a rock...-
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Published: 16 Feb 2000
